1994 PA1. Discovered 1994 August 11 by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named for San Marcello Pistoiese, the mountain village where the Pian dei Termini Observatory is located and an important all-year holiday Tuscan resort. Founded by the Romans in 224 B.C., its name comes from the Roman Consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus. A pedestrian suspension bridge on the river Lima is the longest in the world. (MP Circ. 29673)

2) (7599) Munari

1994 PB. Discovered 1994 August 3 by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese. Named in honor of Ulisse Munari (1960- ), staff astronomer at the Astronomical Observatories of Padua and Asiago since 1990. His researches are concerned with symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables, novae and open clusters as well as minor planets. As a high-school student he founded the Minor Planet Section of the Italian National Amateur Organization, and he still maintains his links with amateurs, allowing them access to some of the Italian professional telescopes. The discoverers found their first asteroid with one of these instruments. (MPCirc. 30478)

3) (7787) Annalaura

1994 WW. Discovered 1994 November 23 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named in honor of Annalaura Calvani Tesi, wife of the first discoverer. (MPCirc. 30803)

4) (7801) Goretti

1996 GG2. Discovered 1996 April 12 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named in honor of Vittorio Goretti (1939- ), a high-school teacher of physics and mathematics in Bologna for almost three decades. As an amateur astronomer, he has focused primarily on the study of minor planets, and in 1976 he was one of the founders of the survey at San Vittore . In 1995 he started a new program from his home in Pianoro that is mainly devoted to follow-up observations. (MPCirc. 30803)

5) (8051) Pistoria

1997 PP4. Discovered 1997 August 13 by L. Tesi and G. Cattani at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named for the Italian city of Pistoria, situated about 30 km from Florence at the foot of the western slope of the Central Apennines between Tuscany and Aemilia. Pistoria is the ancient name of the settlement dating to its founding in the second century B.C. by the Romans. (MPCirc. 32349)

6) (8558) Hack

1995 PC. Discovered 1995 August 1 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named in honor of Margherita Hack (1922- ), director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory (1964-1987), director of the astronomy department of Trieste University (1985-1991 and 1996-1997) and a former president of IAU Commission 29. Although her studies have ranged from optics and solar physics to radioastronomy (galactic 21-cm emission), her main fields of research remain stellar spectroscopy, stellar atmospheres and observable effects of stellar evolution. Her present interests are the ultraviolet and optical spectroscopy of close interacting binaries, atmospheric eclipsing binaries and symbiotic stars. (MPCirc. 32350)

7) (9904) Mauratombelli

1997 OC1. Discovered 1997 July 29 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Named in honor of Maura Tombelli (1952- ). Initially trained as an observer of variable stars, in 1994 she started a five-year survey of minor planets at Asiago Astrophysical Observatory with Ulisse Munari and Giuseppe Forti in Arcetri. She also shared a lot of observing with the discoverers, especially the follow-up of NEOs, and she contributed to the discovery of 1994 QC, the first NEA found from Italy. She is currently involved in a project to build a new observatory near the town of Montelupo, where she lives. She is still the only female astrometrist in Italy. (MPCirc. 34632)

8) (10149) Cavagna

1994 PA = 1996 AZ3. Discovered 1994 August 3 by M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory. Named in honour of Marco Cavagna (b. 1958), Italian amateur astronomer. He began observing comets, variable stars ad occultations at an early age. In 1989 he was one of promoters of follow-up program, with special interest in NEOs, at Sormano Observatory. Cavagna introduced the discoverers to the Italian astrometric community during its first meeting, held in Verona in 1991 (MPCirc. 35494)

9) (10219) Penco

1997 UJ5 = 1992 GL8 = 1995 AH3. Discovered 1997 October 25 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese. Named in honor of Italian phisicist Umberto Penco . After teaching high-school for several years, he became a researcher in the department of phisics at the University of Pisa. He has worked in astrophisics, most recently on mathematical models of chemical evolution of galaxies, and he maintains an interest in science education at secondary-school level, training teachers in astronomy and phisics. Penco has assisted the San Marcello Observatory as a scientific consultant since it was first established, and he has given advice especially on the selection and improvement of the optical instrumentation.(MPCirc. 35494)

Named in honor of Paolo Gigli, who, with the first discoverer, founded the Pian dei Termini Observatory. Early on, Gigli’s main interests concerned the study of variable stars and the observation of the sun. Later he became a speaker on astronomy at Pian dei Termini Observatory, where public lectures are held three times a weck.(MPCirc.35494)

11) (10584) Ferrini

1996 GJ2 = 193 RG18. Discovered 1996 Apr. 14 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese. Named in honor of the Italian phisicist Federico Ferrini, professor of astronomical techniques at the University of Pisa. He has publisched more than 100 scientific papers in major astronomical journals. These cover many subjectes in modern theoretical astrophisics, among them planetology, star formation, the intestellar medium, galactic evolution and its cosmological effects. He is responsable for the Italian light galactic pollution commission and is coordinator for Mediterranean Astronomical Network.

1995 SZ4. Discovered 1995 Sept. 26 by L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese. Alberto Righini (1942- ) is a professor of astronomy at the University of Florence and Arcetri {see planet (6645)} Observatory. His main field of interest is solar physics, and he has observed several eclipses

The northern Tuscany village of Piteglio was founded in medieval times. Piteglio's government has contributed to the construction and maintenance of the Pian dei Termini Observatory, where this object was found. It is also where the second discoverer lives. (M 38200)

15) (11595) Monsummano

1995 KN. Discovered 1995 May 23 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Monsummano Terme is a town in northern Tuscany, about 40 km from Florence. The town is known for its hot springs and for shoe manufacturing. Poet Giuseppe Giusti and French singer Ives Montand were born here. The second discoverer also was born and grew up in Monsummano. (M 38201)

Piero Ranfagni (1949- ) worked for many years as a technician at Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory. He is on the technical staff of the TIRGO Telescope and in the project office of LBT. He has also been very active in the history of astronomy and in popular astronomy. (M 40708)

Augusto Testa (1950- ), Italian amateur astronomer, observes minor planets at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory. Over the past few years he has developed a lot of software dedicated to the observation of minor planets, and these are widely used by the Italian community of astrometric observers. (M 38201)

20) (12399) Bartolini

1995 OD. Discovered 1995 July 19 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Corrado Bartolini (1941- ), professor at the University of Bologna since 1970, has focused his interests on contact spectrophotometric binaries, RR Lyrae and magnetic stars and x-ray binaries. With colleagues, he was successful in 1997 in observing the first optical counterpart of -ray burst. (M 41386)

Paola Ferrari is head of the town library in San Marcello Pistoiese. Her contribution to the construction and the development of the Pian dei Termini Observatory has been remarkable over the years. (M 40710)

Pinocchio was created by Italian writer Carlo Lorenzini, more properly known as Collodi. His book, written in 1883, tells the story of the wooden puppet that, through adventures and ups and downs in his life, finally became a real child. (M 40710)

Nicola Pozio (1965- ) is an accountant for The Spaceguard Foundation. Without his dedication to the development and support of the Foundation it would not have been possible for the discoverers to initiate and maintain the activity on NEOs at the Spaceguard Central Node. (M 46010)

Sauro Romagnani (1942- ), a teacher at the San Marcello junior high school, was selected to participate in a research teaching team for the Educational European Center. He contributed to the founding of the local public library and establishment of the Astronomical Observatory in the Pistoia area. (M 41939)

La Cena delle Ceneri (''The Dinner of the Ashes'') is a work by the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) in which, for the first time in Western philosophical thought, there is discussion of the infinity of worlds in the universe. (M 40710)

27) (13250) Danieladucato

1998 OJ. Discovered 1998 July 19 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Daniela Ducato (1960- ), an active amateur astronomer, has organized many astronomical public events and observing gatherings in Sardegna (Sardinia). She also designed the public gardens of Guspini, her native town, following themes that resembled the constellations. (M 42674)

Virgilio Fossombroni (1946- ), a teacher of Italian Literature, developed a keen interest in science in general and taught the first rudiments of astronomy to the first discoverer when he was a little boy. (M 45338)

Roberto Haver (1961- ) is an Italian amateur astronomer who has been actively involved in observing and studying comets and meteors for more than 20 years. He planned a search for comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle in 1992 with the Schmidt telescope at Cima Ekar and later found prerecovery images. (M 42674)

Décines is a French town to the west of Lione and twinned with the municipality of Monsummano Terme, native city of second discoverer, and in which the amateur association Alepieri is very active in the popularization of astronomy. (M 45339)

Emiliano Paperetti (1951- ) is an amateur astronomer who lives in the Tuscan city of Pistoia. Among his primary interests there is the development of astronomical software that also served the team involved in research on minor planets at San Marcello Pistoiese. (M 43046)

Francesco Manca (1966- ), an amateur astronomer at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory, has made several observations of potentially hazardous asteroids, computing for each of them future and past close encounters with our planet. (M 41388)

Luciano Tesi (1931- ) founded the Amateur Group of the Pistoiese Mountain in 1980. This later led to the construction of the Pian dei Termini Observatory. As director of the station, he has collaborated with the discoverers since 1994 in finding minor planets and following up near-earth objects. (M 41388)

At the University of Pisa, Germano D'Abramo (1973- ) studied the statistics of mutual collisions. Since November 1998 he has collaborated with the Spaceguard Foundation in maintaining the Spaceguard Central Node and working on modeling the near-earth-object population. (M 41573)

41) (16683) Alepieri

1994 JY. Discovered 1994 May 3 by L. Tesi and G. Cattani at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Alessandro Pieri (1969-2000) was an amateur astronomer from childhood and was for many years a member of the Associazione Astrofili Valdinievole, an organization of amateur astronomers in northern Tuscany. He was an active meteor observer and an astrophotographer. (M 41941)

42) (16744) Antonioleone

1996 OJ2. Discovered 1996 July 23 by L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Since the early 1970s, amateur astronomer Antonio Leone (1940- ), of Taranto, Italy, has developed principles of orbital motion in a manner easy for amateurs to understand. This has resulted in two books, Introduzione alla Meccanica Celeste and, with a co-author, Elementi di Calcolo delle Orbite. (M 42675)

Winston S. Wilkerson, uncle of the first discoverer's wife, is a member of the physics faculty at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. His interests have concentrated on variable stars, and he has been a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers for many years. (M 43046)

Paolo Campai (1957- ) is an amateur astronomer in Florence principally involved in astronomical photography and teaching. The discoverers met him in the course of observations of $${lpha$$ Phoenicis and comet 1P/Halley in 1985 on a superb night near Florence. (M 49281)

Carlo Pampaloni (1958- ) is an amateur astronomer who has specialized in visual observations of variable stars for the Groupe Européen d'Observation Stellaire since 1971. So far, he has achieved more than 50 000 visual magnitude estimates. (M 49281)

Aldo Dell'Oro (1971- ), recently awarded his doctorate by the University of Florence, works on the physics and the evolution of main-belt minor planets. He has developed new methods for the statistical analysis of collisions and for reconstructing conditions for the formation of Hirayama {see planet (1999)} families. (M 42367)

48) (21269) Bechini

1996 LG. Discovered 1996 June 6 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Roberto Bechini (1939- ) is an amateur astronomer who belongs to the San Marcello amateur astronomy group. He is devoted to the popularization of astronomy and cosmology. (M 48159)

Emanuele Tognelli (1981- ) is an enthusiastic young amateur astronomer who belongs to the local group at San Marcello Pistoiese. He is interested in the astrometric activity of minor planets and comets recorded at the Pian dei Termini facility. (M 48159)

Marco Menichelli (1942- ) lives in Fiesole, an old Etruscan town near Florence. An amateur astronomer on the San Marcello team, he wrote astronomical software, focusing on transient phenomena. (M 49281)

Luca Fini (1952- ) is an astronomer at the Arcetri Observatory in Florence whose principal interests are in the fields of high-performance computing and telescope instrumentation. He is currently working on the development of the control software for the adaptive-optics system of the Large Binocular Telescope. (M 53176)

Explorer and adventurer Ambrogio Fogar (1941- ) has undertaken many challenges. He attempted to reach the North Pole on foot with his dog and in 1974 completed a trip around the world alone in a 12-meter boat made only of wood. For many years he was the star of the TV show Jonathan Dimensione Avventura. (M 49281)

Franco Pacini (1939- ), since 1978 director of Arcetri Observatory, was IAU president from 2000 to 2003. The author of hundreds of publications on massive stars and their evolution, in 1967 he predicted the existence of neutron stars, spectacularly confirmed a year later with the discovery of the first pulsars. (M 52769)

Andrea Di Paola (1970- ), a staff member at the Rome Astronomical Observatory, has the scientific and technical responsibility for the Campo Imperatore Observatory. He has been involved with instrumentation and software at the CINEOS project for NEO discovery at Campo Imperatore since 1996. (M 49282)

Guido Guidotti (1946- ) is the founder of Valdinievole Association of Astronomy ''A. Pieri''. His main activities are arranging lectures and exhibitions on astronomical subjects, in particular with regard to making observations of planets and comets. (M 53176)

Since 1987, Cosimo Distratis (1927- ) has devoted his life to building and managing Montefusco Uggiano Observatory, near Taranto, Italy. Along with astronomy, his interests include patented capstan devices, design of satellite phone instruments and botany. (M 53176)

62) (29353) Manu

1995 OG. Discovered 1995 July 19 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Manuela Vedovelli (1969- ), a special friend of the first discoverer, obtained her degree in astronomy in 1998 at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on the Seyfert galaxies. (M 48160)

After studies on supernovae at the University of Padua, Maria Elena Salvo (1970- ) has recently started a program for supernova searches in the southern sky at the Australian National University in Canberra. (M 49282)64) (29705) Cialucy

Rotary Susa Club-Val Susa (Italy) is known for its humanitarian work and its devotion to scientific research. The organization has also supported astronomy through the enthusiastic involvement of many members. (M 53176)

Renzo Del Rosso (1957- ) has been an amateur astronomer since his childhood. He is an astrophotographer, lecturer and writer of astronomical software. He loves to search for new techniques to work with astronomical photographs. (M 52769)

Osvaldo Bartolucci (1952- ), director of a popular observatory near Turin, is known for his tireless activity as a popularizer of astronomical science. He has been responsible for both the management of the observatory and the organization of conferences, courses and travels devoted to astronomy. (M 50464)

Gabriella Coli (1931- ) was the elementary school teacher of the first discoverer. (M 48161

72) (34696) Risoldi

2001 OV12. Discovered 2001 July 21 by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese.

Vairo Risoldi (1951- ) is an amateur astronomer at the S. Lucia Stroncone Observatory. Thanks to his skills in electronics and computer science, he made the telescope control interface and various software packages for the astrometric reduction of CCD frames, extensively used by other Italian teams as well. (M 49282)

73) (34718) Cantagalli

2001 PR28. Discovered 2001 August 14 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese. Michela Cantagalli (b. 1965) is the daughter-in-law of the first discoverer. (M 53954)

74) (35358) Lorifini

1997 SL17. Discovered 1997 September 27 by L. Tesi and M: Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese. Lorella Fini (b. 1966) is the daughter-in-law of the first discoverer.(M 53954)

75) (35461) Mazzucato

1998 DM23. Discovered 1998 February 26 by L. Tesi and M: Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese. Michele Mazzucato (b. 1962) is an amateur astronomer whose main fields of interest are the history of astronomy, geometrical geodesy and astrometry of minor planets. A member of several scientific associations, he has written many articles and books, principally on geodesy and astronomy topics.

76) (36446) Cinodapistoia

2000 QV. Discovered 1998 February 26 by L. Tesi and M: Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese. Cino da Pistoia (1270-1337), whose full name was Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi (or Sighibaldi), was a Tuscan jurist and poet. A friend of Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch, he wrote treatises on jurisprudence as well as numerous lyrics and sonnets dealing with the psychology of love.

77) (38020) Hannadam

1998 MP. Discovered 1998 June 17 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.Hanna Smigiel (b. 1971) is a Polish friend of the first discoverer , and Adam (b. 1992) is her son.

78) (39849) Giampieri

1998 CF2. Discovered 1998 Feb. 13 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.Giuliano Giampieri (b. 1932) is a friend of the first discoverer.

79) (43193) Secinaro

2000 AW4. Discovered 2000 Jan. 1 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese. Secinaro, in the province of L’Aquila, is the location of what is probably the first meteoric impact crater discovered in Italy, dating to the fourth or fifth century. The town’s mayor has established a “National Golden Meteorite Prize” for amateur astronomers who have conducted research on the solar system’s minor bodies.

Maurizio Vicoli (b. 1964) has long been involved in astronomical studies, publishing numerous articles on the relationship between philosophy and astronomy and participating in setting criteria for laws concerning light pollution in the Abruzzo region. He also conceived the town of Secinaro’s “National Golden Meteorite Prize”.

Giovanni Casilli (b. 1949) joined the staff of the Rome Astronomical Observatory in 1989. Since then he has worked at the Campo Imperatore station as a technician, providing his assistance to the Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey.

Aldo Di Clemente (b. 1948), an amateur astronomer, has worked as a technician at the Campo Imperatore station of the Astronomical Observatory of Rome since 1982. His assistance has been valuable in conducting the Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey.

Eleonora Ammannito (Tivoli 1979), graduated in Physics in 2004 (University of Rome, La Sapienza) with a dissertation on the calibration of VIRTIS, the imaging spectrometer of the Rosetta mission. She recently joined a Doctoral program at the University of Padua working on the setting up and calibration of the spear model of VIR-MS, the imaging spectrometer of the Dawn mission.

Lagia is the nickname of Livia Giacomini (Roma 1972), a scientific journalist and astrophysicist working in the field of science communication. She collaborated with the Spaceguard Foundation and with many other teams of researchers to spread asteroids science.

85) (46720) Pierostroppa

1997 PO4 Discovered 1997 Aug. 13 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese. Named in honour of Piero Stroppa (b. 1956), graduated in Physics at Milan University in 1979. Since 1992 he has worked in the Italian magazine of Astronomy and Space Science "Nuovo Orione". Teacher of physics in the high school, he has written a lot of papers and books in popular astronomy and general science.

In honour of Remo Corti (b. 1936), an amateur astronomer who lives in Empoli (Italy) and has devoted himself with passion and competence to telescope making for many years. He is very expert in optics and mechanics and with his job he represented a big help for many amateur astronomers.

88) (26177) Fabiodolfi

1996 GN2 Discovered 1996 Apr. 12 by L. Tesi and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.Italian amateur astronomer Fabio Dolfi (b. 1966) has devoted all his spare time to astronomy. Beginning in 1978, he took a special interest tn the photography of deep-sky objects. Subsequently he collaborated with the

program for astrometry of minor planets at the San Marcello Observatory.

89) (44574) Lavoratti

1999 GF1 Discovered 1999 Apr. 4 by L. Tesi and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese.Piero Lavoratti (b. 1935), an Italian amateur astronomer, has contributed to the construction and refurbishing of many astronomical observatory systems. His efforts are devoted to obtaining the best results in astronomical imaging.

Enrico Prosperi (b. 1954), owner of the Tuscan Osservatorio Castelmartini, has since 1998 undertaken observing programs on many kinds of astronomical objects, including comets and minor planets. He is a member of the Italian astronomical associations UAI and SAIt.

Italian aerospace engineer Diego Bonata (b. 1968) has promoted laws for the control of light pollution and energy saving through the Cielobuio Association, of which he is president. At the Carl Sagan Observatory in Brignano Gera d'Adda he has developed new environmentally compatible technologies for lighting engineering..

Italian skier Zeno Colò (1920{1993) was a gold medalist at the Oslo Olympic Winter Games in 1952, and he won two gold and one silver medal at the Aspen World Championship in 1950. He was also the winner of 17 Italian ski titles.

Mirko Villi (b. 1961), an amateur astronomer in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, started a supernova search program in 1990 and is credited with the discoveries of 1991T, 1994W, 1998bu, 2006F, 2007kc and 2007kd. Founder of the International Supernovae Network, he has been a guide for others interested in this work.

The cultural association \I Ragazzi della Leonardo", created by graduates at the Technical and Industrial Institute Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, has the purpose to promote humanitarian and cultural activity, with particular emphasis on spreading scienti¯c knowledge. Many of its members are very active in astronomy.

Giacomo Tommei (b. 1978) carried out research at the University of Pisa on the impact monitoring of near-earth objects. His research interests in celestial mechanicsinclude the orbit determination and dynamics of NEOs.

Gianluca (b. 1969) and Simona (b. 1971) Fagioli are the sons of the second discoverer.

102) (54967) Millucci = 2001 PF29

Discovered 2001 Aug. 15 by A. Boattini and L. Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese. Since 1980 Vincenzo Millucci (b. 1947) has been professor of mathematical Physics in the physics department of the University of Siena. His research areais magneto°uidodynamics. He has also been active in science communication and established the university's Torre Luciana Observatory in Florence.

Alessandro Marchini (b. 1965) is a computer scientist in the physics department and director of the astronomical observatory of the University of Siena. He also works in the popularization of astronomy.

Giorgio Bianciardi (b. 1954) is researcher at the University of Siena. His research areas are biomedicine and astrobiology. Director of the Osservatorio Astronomico Provinciale di Montarrenti (Siena) and for a long time active in the popularization of astronomy and related fields.

105) (70444) Genovali = 1999 TX11

Discovered 1999 Oct. 9 by L. Tesi and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese. Katia Genovali (b. 1978) is a young astrophysicist who is working on cataclysmic and symbiotic variables at the University of Pisa. Apart from her astrophysical work she is also very active in the public understanding of science and astronomy.

Alberto Suci (b. 1937) is an amateur astronomer very active in the observationof the sky and in the divulgation of astronomy in schools and cultural associations.He is the founder of the Astronomy Lab of the town of Agliana (Italy) and the coordinator of the project of the Planetarium in Monsummano Terme (Italy)

Alvaro Rinaldi (b. 1926), has been a topographer for 40 yearsby the Military Geographic Institute of Florence. He is fond of astronomy and sundials and he made projects ad researches. He projected the sundials of the astronomic observatory of Montagna Pistoiese at San Marcello..

Federica Dolfi (b. 1971) is an amateur astronomer and collaborator of the astronomical observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese. She is particularly interested in naked-eye and telescopic observations and in demonstrating the sky to visitors.

Savigliano is an important agricultural and industrial center of the Piedmont(Italy). Located in a plain at the feet of western Alps between the Maira and Mellea torrents it is the birthplace of the astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli. The second discoverers is born in Savigliano, too.

111) (100897) Piatraneamt = 1998 JW3

Discovered 1998 May 5 by L. Tesi and A. Caronia at San Marcello Pistoiese

Piatra Neamt is the capital city of Neamt County in the region ofMoldavia, eastern Romania. The city is the current residence of the second discoverer. The ruins of a large Dacian city, Petrodava, mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geographia, are situated near Piatra Neamt.

Paolo Bacci (b. 1968) is a member of the Gruppo Astrofili Montagna Pistoiese. He works on astrometry of minor planets and comets at the Capannoli Observatory, near Pisa, and on following up near-Earth objects at the Libbiano Peccioli Observatory.

Dynamo Camp is the Italian emanation of the Hole in the Wall Association, a non-profit organisation that works around the world to promote and operate free summer camps specially designed for children with serious and chronic illnesses. This special camp is located in the Tuscany region near by San Marcello Pistoiese (PMC 75352)

Daniela Bargellini Rhodes (b. 1946) is an Italian chemical engineer working in scientific research. She was elected Member and Chair of the European Molecular Biology Organization Council and since 2007 has been a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Maria Luigia Borsi (b. 1973) is an Italian opera singer. Singer unmistakable stamp, she is a lyric soprano appreciated by major Directors of esperience and prestige.She is star of countless recitals throughout the world and frequent performer in concerts alongside Josè Carreras and Andrea Bocelli.

Livorno is an important port city of Italy. Famous for its pentagonal town-walls and a system of navigable canals. Seat of the prestigious Naval Academy. The second discoverer is very attached to this city.

Since 1980 Claudio Bottari (b.1960) has been interested in technical divulgation of amatorial astronomy and was among the first to introduce and use CCD in the Italian astronomical amateurs community in 1991. At the Mira observatory he digitally shoots the sky with a 24"concentric Schmidt Cassegrain in search of SN and NEO.He discovered SN 1996ai in NGC 5005

Niccolò Bucciantini (b. 1976) is an astronomer at the Arcetri Observatory in Florence. He was the third Italian to win the prestigiousHubble Fellowship. He is known for his work on relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, the Crab Nebula and is a proponent of the magnetar model for Gamma Ray Bursts.

Silvano Fuso (b. 1959) is a teacher and a science writer, who worked in the field of molecular spectroscopy. He is a fellow of CICAP,a scientificcommitee for defense of science and reason, and he has written several books on the critical analysis of pseudosciences.

Geronimo Bartolomei (b. 1972) is a student of physics at the University of Pisa and is working at the Astronomical Observatory of San Marcello as popularizer of astronomy.

128) (234026) Unioneastrofili = 1998 SJ35

Discovered 1998 Sept. 23 by L. Tesi at San Marcello.

The Italian Amateur Astronomers Union (UAI) was founded in 1967, counts over 1000 members and releases the peer-reviewed magazine Astronomia. The UAI has many research sections and undertakes scientific popularization and didactics, with the co-operation of the Ministry of Education and Universities.

129) (280641) Edosara = 2005 AT3

Discovered 2005 Jan 06 by L.Tesi and G. Fagioli at San Marcello Pistoiese Edoardo Rossi (b. 1998) and Sara Breschi (b. 1996) are two active young amateur astronomers at the San Marcello observatory.

130) (309227) Tsukiko = 2007 QC

Discovered 2008 Mar. 29 by M. Mazzucato and F. Dolfi at San Marcello Pistoiese. In honour of Selene Mazzucato (b. 1994) daughter of the first discoverer. She is student of tourism science and is very interested in observational astronomy.

Giuseppe Gavazzi (b. 1936) is a painter and sculptor, much appreciated for the originality of his large wood and bronze sculptures. He is an expert restorer of paintings of the great masters of the past and as very passionate amateur astronomer he painted sundials with scientific accuracy with the ancient technique of fresco.

AIMAKU is the Italian association that takes care of the genetic disease alkaptonuria (AKU) by means of study and research and aims to unite all the people suffering from this serious debilitating illness.

Waltermaria 246153 Walter Mazzucato and Maria Pozzi were father and mother of the first discoverer.

Walter E. B. Mazzucato (1921-2003) and Maria L. Pozzi (1927-2003) were father and mother of the first discoverer.Waltermaria 246153 Walter Mazzucato and Maria Pozzi were father and mother of the first discoverer.(246153) Waltermaria = 2007 PW30

Wanli (b. 1973) is the stage name of Japanese painter Mari Furukawa. Among his many notable works are those dedicated to the sky, including "The nine planets" and the cycle titled "The twenty-eight constellations."